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Cardiac compression and decompensation due to hiatus hernia
G S Hunt1, D M Gilchrist, M K Hirji
1Department of Medicine, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada.
The Canadian Journal of Cardiology
|March 1, 1996
Abstract:
A seventy-seven year old man with long standing hiatus hernia, coronary artery disease and pulmonary fibrosis developed left atrial compression from incarceration of a paraesophageal hernia.